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[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
welcome to the bricked club of yet another one due the lag fix install :p

you are not the first, and you certainly would not be the last.

lag fix was supposed to be easy, but truth is, many devices are not compatible with it for some odd reason.

anyways the best thing you can do right now

is to enter into DOWNLOAD MODE, yes we know your 3 button is not working

so get the HAIR DRIER and blow the phone until it feels hot to the touch, just don't burn it to a crispy chip

then try the 3 button mode again
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
Yeah I was like OMG its worked, i had to do it a few times and worked every go :)

Yeah im running windows 7. I had to reinstall my samsung drivers aswell

I gave up on that firmware, and decided to use on from Aery's thread

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=783596

Finally got my Galaxy back with FROYO and now rooted
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mover23:
OK, I am a noob, but seriously? Does this actually work, because it would save me a very expensive paperweight...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mover23:
I will try this later too, because otherwise I have a very expensive paperweight...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] distortedloop:
Yeah, he's serious! Absolutely ridiculous sounding, but there's a whole thread in the Development section of the i9000 that discusses heating your phone will get three button to work on some devices.

Proceed at your own risk!!!

I'd do a little forum searching and read the topic before trying it...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] suttydolt:
Another thing to try as well -

Load Odin

Take battery out of phone

Plug phone into USB connected to PC

While pressing the key combination for download mode push in the battey.

Worked for me anyhow :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
If you have a hair dryer like i did remove the battery and sim card and leave the battery cover off, I heated it up for about 1-2 minutes until the phone was very hot, then stick the battery in vol key up, home and power. Hopefully you will get the same result as I did
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
just an update for anyone that cares. looks like either the service centre in melbourne didnt have jtag or the phone was irrepairable. the motherboard is being replaced, but apparently i get to keep my IMEI... bonus! :p

but as a side topic, that should mean that the encryption on the IMEI info in the nv_ram files isnt dependent on hardware. not that i care about changing my IMEI.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunny24:
Now i can get my phone to be detected by Windows, where it installs drivers... And Odin can detect it as well (but do nothing about it) and Kies can't detect it proberbly, it just keeps searching for it...

Now what? :)
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Sunny24:
SOLVED MY PROBLEM!!!!

Here is how i did it:

Found out that AndroidSDK was able to find the device by: C:\AndroidSDK\tools\adb devices

Then it said that the device was detected.

Then by using the: adb reboot recovery i got into recovery mode

Now i chose: reset to factory --> yes

Applied the update.zip (which was on the device from former rooting)

And then rebooted... Now it's back to factory settings with Apps, but all my music, pictures, contacts etc. still remains... And the phone is still rooted!!

I'm not a believing man.... But today --- thank you lord!!! :) hehe

Thanks for the help boys...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9dragon:
[Q] help!! semi-bricked my Galaxy S! and cant enter the download mode!

the other day I was flashing my Samsung Galaxy S I900 using Odin , then the house electricity went down! I got stuck into this semi-brick mode! and the 3 buttons recovery boots not working at all!

link to the pic of what I see on my screen:

(yfrog.com/8bhum1e0j)

sorry I cant post the pic, since I'm still not verified by a moderator

now when I plugged it to my PC nothing happens!! any idea for a solution?

thanks guys
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AdamDowning:
Dont unserstand why its semi bricked. Its bricked. Have to send to samsung repair unfortunately. Say Kies did it to your phone.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] tarambuka:
Was your Download/Recovery function available out of the box or you just never had that in the first place?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Aggregate:
You should be able to to get back into the download mode if you pull out the battery, reinsert it and do the three button combo.

If you could never get into the download mode via the 3 button combo in the first place, bad luck.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9dragon:
I did root my phone, but I didn't try to press the three buttons to enter download, I used cmd all the time
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
If you see this picture this means the phone is actually working (not completely bricked).

If you can enter the download mode it is not a problem to flash it.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
Hey, hope i can help. I had the exact same problem flashing my SGS about 2 days ago. Like you i had the same picture on my phone aswell. I also used adb to put my phone into recovery and download mode as my SGS will not go into thes modes by using the volume, home and power buttons.

I originally flashed my phone with odin with 2.2 firmware and was happy but i could not root it. So once again i used odin to flash with a differant rooted 2.2 firmware.

Almost instantly from starting ODIN the software decided to hang on me

<ID:0/003> Added!!
<ID:0/003> Odin v.3 engine (ID:3)..
<ID:0/003> File analysis..

so i had no choice but to unplug it, which gave me the 'phone-!-pc' or 'BRICKED SCREEN'

This will sound stupid but it worked perfectly for me and by others....

Heat the phone up with something like a hair dryer or radiator for a few minutes with the battery out . Then insert the battery and try using the volume key down, home and power button. By doing this it put my phone into download mode some how.

My original thread for this problem was

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=788537

If you read through that you may have had a similiar problem like me.

If you can get it into download mode, i suggest flashing with this firmware

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=783596

It has clear instructions for ODIN and is 2.2 rootable

Hope this helps
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mover23:
No luck so far, I will keep trying though....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9dragon:
thank you simtec09 I'm gonna try this now
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
Hopefly youll get a positive result :)

Let us know if you have any further problems and ill see if i can help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
If you have tryed using a hair dryer, the phone needs to be extremely hot, to the point where it feels like it will burn u. And only apply heat to the back and not the screen for around 2 minutes
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9dragon:
I heated it up for many times and tried. but no sucess! i even kept heating really close to it for more than 3 minutes.

can you please explain more how or where u focused your heat in?

thank you...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] waffles666:
Not sure what heatng the phone up has to do with anything but yes if you keep trying and pull the battery it should eventually go into download mode. This happened to me to just keep trying and it will work eventually. otherwise as mentioned above send in for warranty blaming keis they wont know the diff.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
When i heated my phone, I removed the battery, simcard and mem ory card. I focused on the back of the phone focusing where the battery places and around the camera but not directly on the camera. My phone refuses to do the button combination but when i heat it up it goes into either recovery or download first time.

But saying that, the first time i managed to get the phone into download mode i had tryed using the hair dryer maybe 5/6 times and eventually worked it out to work everytime

Also Waffles I think the heat may have something to do with bad manufacturing like solder, similiar to xbox red ringing and overheating them....
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9dragon:
so you say , when I heat it up , do I still need to press the 3 buttons? or it will go to recovery or download by itself?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Husseinala:
Help is my phone bricked

I was flashing I9000XXJP3 with odin3 i put my phone in the download mode loaded the files in odin3 and then clicked start then I got a blue screen on my phone and odin3 had SLP written in the first white box after a while when nothing happened I puled the usb cable off and took the battery out put it back in and the phone does not come on any more tried vol down home and power but nothing
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] saldawop:
I had a similar thing.Was flashing the ROM, then for some reason the phone just disconnected halfway through.

Phone would not boot up.

Took battery out and left it for a couple of minutes.Booted up after that,just had to reflash.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Husseinala:
I have tried that but it still did not work I hope someone got another solution
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] celtichazard:
Man sorry but your phone is dead send to samsung to repair

mine is the same problem but my really problem is i live in mexico and i cant go to uk for repair my phone this suks
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
before you send it back, try the 3 button reboot into DOWNLOAD mode

see wiki for details

http://xdaforums.com/wiki/index.php?title=Samsung_Galaxy_S/GT-I9000
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] celtichazard:
Unfortly the phone at today still is a dead phone maybe in some weeks we have a solution to get in to download mode.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you don't make any sense

to get into the download mode, you only need to press the 3 buttons on the phone

there's no solution of any sort, it's a hardware thing
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Husseinala:
I have been trying that all day with no luck I think the only solution is to send it to Samsung but I'm not shore what should I tell them
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Frostfree:
Just tell them it won't boot up, they'll have to recover it somehow to diagnose the problem.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lewymd:
[Q] HELPPPP - Possibly Bricked Samsung Galaxy S!!!

hi there, i used some tool on here to root my galaxy s from the UK!, and now its just in a continuous loop saying AT&T World Phone

Please Help Me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
you flashed the wrong ROM

do the 3 button combo to go back into the DOWNLOAD mode, then you can flash it again using Odin
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lewymd:
tried

i tried to do this but the 3 button combo loads the same screen
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] lewymd:
and when i do the combo when its plugged in by usb it does nothing.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
if you are unable to get into the Download mode, then you are stuck.

the only way to fix it now, is to send it back to Samsung
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] aeo087:
Why is this happening to so many people!!? use samsung-firmwares and the tool there! From what I understand this happens when you flash using Odin for the captivate on an i9000...

What version of Odin did you use? what firmware were you trying to flash?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Uss_Defiant:
Another possible brick? Any way to format sdcard?

Hey guys, after usning the update.zip method my phone turned off and loads up wth the Samsung logo.. but then stops but the bottom lights stay on.

I've tried reflashing but the problem aways occurs... after reflashing a blue screen wih "samsung Recovery Utils" pops up and has yellow saying "update media please wait" followed by some stuff ending with "Cant mount SDCARD:"

"you storage is not prepared yet, please use UI me nu for format and reboot actions"

When i reboot, it only loads up to the samsung logo, then goes blank.. any ideas?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] celtichazard:
this sucks man http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g8AIvalzBvY

still waitng for a software solution..........
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] Trevlig:
u need to hold the button until the screen flashes TWO times
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scouzer:
I don't know why people here can't accept that some SGS are locked out of download mode. This won't work.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] vancouver_hawk:
similar problem please HELP!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
Sorry as soon as you have heated it up, stick youre battery in and use the button combination for download mode.

I meant to say normally my phone wont go into download or recovery mode via button combination. But after heating it up and doing the button combination it works every time
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dcc22:
I really doubt that is true. Probably ppl who had heating success pushed their buttons wrong before.

Most likely you will damage your screen with that.

I bricked mine too and decided to send it in. Looks like they have fast repairs in Germany, arrived at tuesday and now it's "in rapair" status on the website ;) I also wrote them to fix 3br - let's see what happens
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] simtec09:
I know many people are skepticle about the heat, but seriouselly i spent over an hour trying the 3 button combinations, i know im doing them rite.

The only time they will work is when i apply heat to the device., which i have done around 10 times.

I didnt believe it at first, i tried entering recovery and download modes via the 3 button combination normally with no luck then trying the heat and it did for both
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
try this... it always worked for me.

hold down the vol down button, home button and power button all at once. the phone should keep rebooting as long as the power button is held down the whole time. while it is doing this, you need to count the timing of how long the screen stays on, and how long the gap is when it turns off and reboots. for me it was about 3 seconds on, 1 second off.

you have to time it so that you wait for the screen to turn off, then at the time when the screen would normally turn back on you have to release the power button and press it down again. so literally releasing it for a split second then pressing it down again right when the screen should be turning back on.

my 3 button combo would never work in a normal situation, but would consistently work when i semi-bricked it like this. you probably wont get the timing straight away. it took me about 30 mins on my first try, but after that i could get it within 10-20 seconds.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] mover23:
Tried this process in all kinds of shapes and sizes, and I am not having any luck getting into recovery mode at all.

I think I need a break before I lose it.

I do think this will be the last Samsung product I buy.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] 9dragon:
but once it gets to that semi-brick mode, it doesn't power off unless i remove the battery!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] kanemari:
thats interesting. that didnt happen with me. mine would always reboot if i held the power button down for long enough. unless it got past the stage where the samsung S logo came up then it wouldnt work. but within the first 7-8 seconds of the phone turning on it would.

so when you put your battery in, the phone comes on automatically? you must need to turn it on with the power button right?

but anyway, looks like my method wont help you then since you cant really count properly. sorry.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Need Help with a Bricked GT-I9000 INT

Hi Developers,

I have been trying to install Tayutama Edition v1.1 that was posted on the Forum.

I have learnt that I will have to Install the I9000XWJM8 Firmware to use the Custom ROM.

My phone is an International Version of GT-I9000 Galaxy S. I never got the Download Mode and Recovery Mode Button Combos Working. I had used ADB REBOOT DOWNLOAD to enter into the download mode to Flash the New Firmware.

I used Odin to Flash the Firmware. Flash was successfull and it was giving an Invalid Argument Error in the Recovery Mode. I decided to Reflash the device using another CSC which i thought would have been the problem. While trying to reflash, Odin Got stuck at SetupConnection. It was stuck for more than 2 hours, hence I had no choice but to unplug the USB.

When I boot the Phone, I get the PC-!-Phone displayed on the phone.

I would want to ask a few question regarding my phone.

1. The Download and the Recovery Mode never seemed to work. Is this related to a Hardware issue or Firmware issue? I have successfully flashed the Firmware once, so will Download Combination start working? I have tried to enter the Download mode, but it doesn't seem to work. Any Suggestions?

2. Does the battery charge when i plug in the charger? I am getting curious about it because I am willing to mess with the Button Combos. It would be really awfull If I drain the battery and I would be left with no chance of recharging the battery.

3. I didn't try the Heating up thing. Is it worth a try on a Galaxy S in which the Button Combos Don't work?

4. I don't have my Phone warranty. Any Approximate of the costing if I go for the Repairs and how long will I have to wait?

Any Suggestions and Advices are welcome.

Please show some concern. I am in desperate need of help.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
1 - that is because of the 3 button disabled mode, which they now released a SPL fix, after flashing that your 3 button will work again

too bad you did not wait for it before you began playing with ROMs

2 - AFAIK few people have commented when the phone is in the Black screen of Death (phone-!-pc) it doesn't charge, and last time i had the same problem seemed to confirm the same, reason why i picked up a stand alone wall charger for our batteries

3 - yes many have confirmed the heat trick works, use a hair drier it's the safest, it needs to be hot to the touch

take out battery, sim, sd card

repeat a few times until it works

4 - it's covered in samsung warranty, they'll flash it for you at no cost, it was on their facebook website, last time i took mine to have it service that's all they did
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dhiru1602:
Thanks for the Reply. I have tried the Heating trick. Doesn't seem to work. I seriously don't want to risk any Internal Components.

The problem with my Warranty is that I have bought the Phone in Dubai and using it in India currently. I guess it is not covered under warranty anymore.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
that's unfortunate, yes they will only do warranty on the same country

some XDA members that got the Bell model will need to have some one in Canada help them with warranty issues.

Perhaps you can find some one to help you in Dubai
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geagina:
[Q] [BRICK??] please help

this is what i did

-firmware update to 2.2(JP2)

-rooting with one-click root

now the problems are,

-android.process.acore error msg pops up with contact related tasks

-market(downloading seems to be fine, but installing fails)

-etc.

i was trying to do,

-downgrade to 2.1

-now volume key(UP/DOWN both) + home key + power key doesn't get me into download mode or recovery mode. it used to work every single time i tried it and now it is not working. and when i have the buttons pressed, regular booting screen pops up and having the buttons pressed still, it will reboot repeatedly.

:can't get into download mode.

solutions? anyone?? please?? is this what you call a brick??
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
i'll say the same what i already answered here

http://xdaforums.com/showthread.php?t=791473

There are many topics already about people reverting to 2.1 after getting a bad taste of the beta Froyo.

if you use the search and type in Froyo, you'll find a lot of people that have gone through that already, also a lot that are still in the process like you
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] geagina:
i have looked at those posts downgrading to 2.1.

however, since i cant get into download mode i cant use odin to recover 2.1.

and now i have no "my file" app. so i can access anything that i download.

plus, i cant get apps from market either so...am i screwed?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] AllGamer:
are you able to set the phone into USB Debugging mode?

if you can, then you can do ADB Reboot Download
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] andrelo03:
i ve just bricked my galaxy s

hi guys, i really need your help here!!.i ve just updated my galaxy s via kies from jp3 to jh2, everything went ok, but just after installing the update my phone is now DEAD!doent, boot, doesn charge, cant get into download mode, nothing...PLEASE HELP!!!
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] scaryzid:
[HELP] My SGS is bricked. Keep boot looping on Galaxy S black screen. HELP!

My SGS is bricked and I am cranky.

I went to rooted my SGS and went to change to rename an XXJPK file to the update.zip on the internal SD.

Now after finishing installing, I rebooted and it doesn't work at all. Apparently it's stuck on the GALAXY S GT-I9000 SAMSUNG black screen.

Tried going to Android Download mode or Recovery Mode, does not work, just goes back to the same screen over and over.

Please help me.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] BackfireNL:
MOD EDIT: Removed unacceptable language. Please refrain from using such profanities in posts, per the forum rules.

...because if you can't access recovery or download mode then you need to send it for repairs...

why did you rename xxJPK to update.zip? what file exactly?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] callous-1:
[Q] Help!!! I think i may have bricked my i9000m

Can anyone help me on this

I have a bell i9000m (download and 3 button recovery is working well). Initially i was running jh2 with voodoo lag fix beta 4. It was randomly crashing so I deleted the update.zip from the internal sd thinking it would remove the lagfix. WRONG (i think). Phone would stall after the "S" boot animation with a black screen.

So i said fine, let me flash JPK with odin. using 513pit, did a factory reset after the flash and still the same thing (takes extra long at the boot animation and then black screen). What am i doing wrong?

Thanks in advance
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] dupel:
Please read the first sticky post. And instead of asking for help - how about reading about voodoo?
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] cyfawcett:
Good news is that if you can get into recovery, youre not bricked... Try using the.512pit file and select repartition in odin. You'll lose everything I think though.

Keep reading and you'll figure it out...
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] yvrRome:
I didn't use voodoo but ran into the same thing with black screen and phone occassionally vibrating after flashing with jpk. I determined my internal sd got messed up and was afraid I would have to send for repair like some members have. Well, I just used odin to flash my original firmware with repartition and got my internal sd back. So I re-flashed froyo without repartition and it's working now.

Hope that helps you.
[Galaxy S I9000 Q&A, Help & Troubleshooting] frriction:
for JPK you need 803pid not 513. try search this forum how to install JPK